This value-change will be driven by a capitalist economic engine. People will stop suicide-bombing when they play PokemonGO
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Sadly, I don't think it is that simple. Suicide-murderers are not doing it for the money. They are 'believers' in a myth.
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Replying to @DellAnderson
They'll die out eventually, just as Christian extremism died in West on onset of capitalism - a better distraction than faith.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Hasn't happened in any other muslim country, including even muslims in America.
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Replying to @DellAnderson
Indonesia + Iran, while far from perfect, are making headway on that front. Old priests dying out, young are secular/liberal.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Furthermore, we didn't exactly "coddle" Iran to get where they are either, did we? Quite the opposite. Different
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Replying to @DellAnderson
Weirdly, we paved way for Iran's hardline theology...
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Replying to @DellAnderson
Yeah. We also helped Ibn-al Saud to win power, condemning region to Wahhabism.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Anytime we endorse a despot out of immediacy needs, we lose moral high ground. Not that familiar with Ibn-al Saud so can't say.
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Watch a documentary called Bitter Lake. It'll tell you everything. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gyz6b …
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Thanks, will do soon (can't now). Will consider source though (hard to be truly objective about mess you helped create!)
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